'I, Frankenstein': Terribly told tale a horrifying monster mash

12:29 PM,
Jan. 30, 2014

Kevin Grevioux in a scene from 'I, Frankenstein.'

Written by

Bill Goodykoontz
| Gannett

By far the scariest thing about director Stuart Beattie's "I, Frankenstein," a terrible would-be horror story that somehow roped in a couple of really good actors, is that the ending seems to suggest the possibility of a sequel.

Now that's horror.

You probably know the basics of Mary Shelley's classic novel. Mad scientist Victor Frankenstein creates a living creature from spare parts of corpses. In the novel the monster isn't the unthinking horror he became in movies; he reads and contemplates his sorry state. This is all dispensed with in about the first two minutes of the movie. The ...